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Rule of Reno

Updated April 25, 2000 12:01 a.m. ET

By Grover Joseph Rees. Mr. Rees, a former judge and law professor who served as general counsel of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1991 to 1993, is staff director of the House Subcommittee on International Relations and Human Rights.

R easonable people may disagree about whether the U.S. government should send a child back to Cuba. But they shouldn't disagree about whether Attorney General Janet Reno ought to be on television arguing that if you look carefully you can see the submachine gun wasn't really...